>       I wholeheartedly agree - I have witnessed numerous occasions where
>an innocent party has been blacklisted because the relaying tests were not
>using properly defined rules & the server operators had to fight long &
>hard to have their servers removed when they had never allowed relaying.

The Low End Mac mailing list server was just blacklisted recently... 
because one of the signed up list members spammed one of the lists (sent 
a TOTALLY off topic posting advertising some kind of book about Greek or 
something... don't really know, I deleted the message as soon as I 
realized it was junk).

One of the other list subscribers promptly submitted the email to one of 
the spam houses... getting the mail list domain (improperly if you ask 
me) blacklisted.

I think this is just one more reason I do NOT support spam policing 
groups. They encourage people to blindly send messages to list a 
domain... and many of them don't seem to do the foot work to see if the 
domain really SHOULD be listed (a simple look at the headers would have 
reveiled the email as coming from a mail list, and a quick look at the 
mail list policies would have shown that it is a double opt-in list... 
thus although the individual email was spam... the domain should NOT have 
been blacklisted).

-chris

<http://www.mythtech.net>


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